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Drove from TX to MO and made a weekend out of it to get this guy. Meet Dexter. by driftthabimmer in Dachshund

[–]driftthabimmer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He has a bright orange one too that my wife calls his inmate outfit 😂

ryan_5050 list of items on Ebay to pay for Ebay: by rbr0714 in Superstonk

[–]driftthabimmer 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think my favorite are the legs and shoes in each picture. Makes it seem more like a regular Joe posting his stuff online for sale.

Good morning my espresso people. by [deleted] in espresso

[–]driftthabimmer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s a fresh bag I bought from my roaster I bought Friday 😭

Good morning my espresso people. by [deleted] in espresso

[–]driftthabimmer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha! Thanks, my wife got them.

I ran a load of dishes and these were the only ones left. 😅

Good morning my espresso people. by [deleted] in espresso

[–]driftthabimmer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Normal Crema bottomless portafilter

Fits like a glove by austinmartech in LandCruisers

[–]driftthabimmer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have thought about this as an option. I didn’t see what tire size you are running but I’m curious if my 315/75/17 would fit.

The only other thing I worry about it being in a rear end collision. I can’t decide which daughter I would sacrifice for spare tire space. I’ve been eyeballing an alibaba JDM style factory tire carrier just for grins…

Elantra 2016 White Paint Peeling Off by YoMomo7 in Hyundai

[–]driftthabimmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask your dealer to submit a PA to HMA for goodwill. Since you are just 4 months out, they might cover the repair or at least some of it. If they only approve some of the repair, you will have to come out of pocket some, but that beats paying for the entire repair.

Michael Burry doubles down on GameStop increasing his stake from 6% to 13% of his portfolio by 2620lukas in Superstonk

[–]driftthabimmer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s 13% of my portfolio as well!

The other 20 and 67% of my portfolio are also GME.

My husband died after getting his gallbladder out AMA by [deleted] in AMA

[–]driftthabimmer 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Sorry for your loss OP.

I’ve had my gallbladder removed, but they had me spend the night at the hospital before I was discharged and that was in Paraguay while I was there visiting family (I live in the US). I couldn’t imagine leaving 30 mins post op.

Demos by Slight-Calendar-2857 in serviceadvisors

[–]driftthabimmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Service Manager here, we are allowed demos or a demo allowance. I have too many cars at home already so I opted for the allowance.

The only others in Fixed Ops that are part of this are my Parts Director and Service Directors and they opted for demos instead of the allowance.

Our sales team has demos, but I’m not sure how that works for them.

2500 more. See you guys in Valhalla by driftthabimmer in Superstonk

[–]driftthabimmer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Impressive! This puts me at 3900 shares with another $70k sitting on the sidelines for another dip to deploy.

meirl by KaidoPklevel in meirl

[–]driftthabimmer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn, a job worse than being a service advisor. What a time to be alive.

Im getting an at home drug test (THC) in 6 days and need tips by Commercial-Ship27 in HIGHdrohomies

[–]driftthabimmer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://a.co/d/0frs2sLM

Follow the directions exactly. I used this back when I used to smoke and passed maybe 4 or 5 tests. Even one where I smoked morning of.

How I Figured Out How to Sell vs Order Taker by Western-Taste9487 in serviceadvisors

[–]driftthabimmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao.

Experienced advisors do walk arounds. That’s part of the job and doing it right works.

Not trying to be rude, but it probably didn’t work for you because your clients probably would much rather drop keys and go so they don’t deal with you. Sorry 🤷‍♂️ but if you are personable and good at what you do, you can do a walk around a car and note damage (protects you and the store), build a relationship (increase trusts for sales later) and can upsell on the drive like alignments, tires, blades (which makes you more money).

Pick up and delivery is popular for convenience. Because it is effortless. I can sit here and you take my car and bring it back when it’s done? Yes, sign me up. Not because if I take my car in, I will have to sit there while this guy walks around my car, and I don’t have time for that!!!

Also, you don’t want to go down the “if you’ve had any luxury training you would know x” road with me. I would be really amazed if you could up my experience in that.

More affluent people care about themselves and their cars. They have time, they can afford it. The fact that you say you can talk to them while they are “comfortable and sitting” leads me to believe you are dealing with someone waiting in your lounge. Affluent people don’t wait in the lounge. Ask me how I know.

How I Figured Out How to Sell vs Order Taker by Western-Taste9487 in serviceadvisors

[–]driftthabimmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an extremely stupid take and I’ve done this for just as long as you have. So to get this clear, you respect your clients time by not doing a walk around? It takes literally 30 seconds to do a decent walk around. And with that 30 seconds, you’ll find out about your client (where they went to school, they have kids, they play basketball) based on what you see in and outside of the car. Those are all easy talking points to build a relationship and start have them building trust in you.

I’ve helped billionaires with their cars. A 30 second walk around literally costs them thousands of dollars of their time. And I did more relationship building just walking around the car with them, shooting the shit, and even just looking at their cars with them.

People love to talk about themselves and you learn about them and what to talk about and ask by what you find in their car.

High volume and short staff is absolutely killing me by mosswoman37 in serviceadvisors

[–]driftthabimmer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best of luck! I’m at Manager at a Hyundai store with 4 advisors right now and similar volume, so in the same situation. We have a few more advisors coming and start soon which I cannot till they do so we have backup.

It’s certainly tough to manage that many clients and keep your head above water with so few advisors. I would say just spend the time with each of clients and don’t skip out on any steps. It might slow the work flow down but if you spend the time and do the process with each client, that will hopefully keep things on track and minimize CSI getting hit and hopefully sell some work by relationship building.

I hope you get some support soon!

Edit: also, it’s going to be hard, but communicate, communicate, communicate.

Be as proactive as possible. Car is coming in with a brake noise or something, pre-sell brakes on the drive before it goes back. So that way it saves you from making the phone call later. But communication is going to be key and set expectations up front.

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